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Author Cohen, Sarah R., 1957-

Title Art, dance, and the body in French culture of the ancien régime / Sarah R. Cohen
Published New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2000

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Description xv, 352 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm
Contents Introduction: The Artful Body -- Ch. 1. The Court Ballet -- Performing Aristocracy -- The Body in the Ballet -- The King's Two Dresses -- Ch. 2. Art as Spectacle -- Vaux-le-Vicomte -- Public Spectacle and the Fetes of Versailles -- A Permanent Universe -- Ch. 3. Aristocratic Traceries -- Tracery in the French Court -- Courtly Play -- The Spread of Aristocratic Style -- Ch. 4. The Universal Masquerade -- The Professional Body -- Fashion, Costume, Mask -- Gender Inventions -- The Universal Masquerade -- Ch. 5. Watteau's Performers -- Figure and Character -- Arabesque Couplings -- Social Play and the Contredanse -- Ch. 6. Collective Rituals -- Aristocratic Sociality in Early Eighteenth-Century Paris -- The New Aristocratic Ball -- Pilgrimages to Cythera -- Ch. 7. The Artful Body in Question -- Picture and Performance -- The Suppression of the Artful Body -- Watteau's Pierrot
Summary "Art, Dance, and the Body in French Culture of the Ancien Regime is an interdisciplinary study of images produced in France during the reign of Louis XIV and the Regency. Focusing on the relationship between art and dance during this period, Sarah Cohen examines how the aristocratic body was used to project political and social ideas through artful styles of physical display. Cohen analyses complex modes of bodily representation, including ballet, masquerading, and gender performance; theater, garden, and interior design; and the paintings and drawings of Antoine Watteau. She demonstrates the interrelationships among these different visual forms and uses them to interpret the varied and changing significance of the "artful body" within French culture of the ancien regime."--Jacket
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 329-343) and index
Subject Art and dance -- France -- History -- 17th century.
Human figure in art.
Human body -- Symbolic aspects -- France -- History.
Art and dance -- France -- History -- 18th century.
Arts, Modern -- 17th-18th centuries -- France
Arts, Modern -- 18th century -- France.
Arts, Modern -- 17th century -- France.
Symbolism in art -- France.
Dance in art -- France.
Arts, French -- 17th century.
Arts, French -- 18th century.
Dance in art.
Symbolism in art.
Body language in art.
Human body -- Symbolic aspects -- France -- History -- 17th century.
Human body -- Symbolic aspects -- France -- History -- 18th century.
Gender identity in art.
SUBJECT France -- Civilization -- 18th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh92005892
France -- Civilization -- 17th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85051189
Genre/Form History.
LC no. 99015469
ISBN 0521640466 hb
9780521640466 hb